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With data growing exponentially, it is becoming mandatory for law firms and organizations to maintain and store it safely. Therefore organizations need an effective eDiscovery tool that can provide an integrated solution for sorting through huge volumes of data to find what is relevant to the case. Failure to produce relevant documents pertaining to a case can cost companies millions of dollars in fines. This necessitates the use of an effective eDiscovery tool. Organizations and law firms are looking for eDiscovery tools that can manage the complete end-to-end eDiscovery process, from identification and collection to review and production. But when it comes to the exact eDiscovery tools needed, many companies are in the dark. Consider the following factors when deciding what tool is right for you:

Early Case Assessment – Uses a top-down approach to allow attorneys to navigate through documents, discussion threads and message attachments. This can reduce discovery time and help attorneys to make better decisions in preparing the case. ECA can improve eDiscovery litigation success by up to 76 percent and reduce case costs by 50 to 90 percent.
Data Culling – Many organizations use traditional culling down techniques that reduce the data set by only 30-40 percent, and, for further legal processing, give it to outside parties for a huge fee. Instead, a scalable search engine can help find relevant information faster.
Nonlinear Review – This eliminates delays for reviewers and streamlines workflow. Nonlinear review collates related data through clustering, which increases review speed and thereby reduces review costs.
Data Mapping – Data mapping is an important eDiscovery technique. With so much unstructured data contained in files across an organization, collating information can be difficult. Data mapping identifies and collects files from across the organization, analyzes it and enables investigators to identify evidence to make the right decisions.

Concept Search – Concept search helps when the right keywords are not known.  Moreover, keyword search tends to be over inclusive, i.e. adding unwanted data also. Concept search technologies are new and interesting, and, using this technology, you can find documents that keyword searches are unable to find.

eDiscovery continues to evolve and is becoming increasingly important for all organizations due to the number of civil suits filed every year, growing amounts of electronically stored information and new statutes that are passed from time to time. To meet the demands of the legal community, the right eDiscovery tool becomes increasingly important to retain and manage data. This can help organizations stem the costs of discovery while increasing effectiveness.